when music meets ...                  extermination

 
 


musique musica musika music


From 1943 onwards, the SS fulfilled its fantasy of bringing together over forty female musicians from all over Europe in the Auschwitz orchestra. They were directed by the niece of Gustav Mahler, Alma Rose, whom the survivors still worship to this day.


Twelve women who still call themselves the "Orchestra", ask us questions about the passing on of the memory of the Holocaust through the sole prism of the music which shaped their entire lives. They confront us with the evolution of the memory which has been distorted by commemorations, official history and sensational novels. They do so without calculation, but because of their unique equation: surviving between the music and extermination.

 

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FESTIVALS

  1. •European Film Academy

  2. •Melbourne International Festival

  3. •Bronze Plaque Award HBO  /Colombus International Film & Video Festival

  4. • Prix du Jeune Public / Visions du Réél - Nyons

  5. •Nominated Prix du Cinéma Européen 1999



12 SURVIVORS

  1. •Violette  (France) - Anita  (UK)

  2. •Hélène (Belgium) -Eva (Germany)

  3. •Flora (Holland) - Margotte (Tchekia) - Yvette (USA) - Regina (Israel) - Sylvia (Israel) - Hilde (Israel) - Helena (Poland) - Zosia (Poland)


 
FILM CREW director: michel daëron editor: eva feigeles aimé dop: jacques bouquin sound: olivier le vacon music: martin friedel mix: eric bonnard producers: hetty Naajkens serge lalou marie-george suriam martine barbé anne verschave eliane stutterheim with the support of MEDIA